Tracking an album collection that keeps growing with a pinch of local music and life.

Sonny and Cher

You know, I was going to post some pictures of Sonny and Cher and question “Oh, what will they say in 30 – 40 years about what I wore?” or comment “Wow, what dated, old clothes, you can definitely tell what year it is”.

Then I started going through and I’d actually draw inspiration from all of her outfits. Mixed prints, good shapes, you know fashion, trendy stuff that make the outfits timeless in a way. Perhaps a little tweaking here and there to make the outfits modern, but honestly not much. She’s also been a fashion icon on top of having hits throughout many decades.

The Spiral Starecase was an American band, best known for their 1969 single “More Today Than Yesterday”.

“More Today Than Yesterday” has been widely covered by, among others, Sonny and Cher, Diana Ross and the band Goldfinger, and was featured in the 1991 film My Girl, on the soundtrack of The Waterboy in 1998, and in an episode of Ally McBeal.

Like this:

Cher. The legend herself on an LP. I’ve obviously posted about her with Sonny before, but this is my first time posting an album of just Cher. I picked this up in the $0.99 bin (considering this a hidden gem!) at Garnick’s because I thought there was some controversy when this album and the title song came out. Somehow, I got in my head that people thought she was appropriating another culture.

I think if there was any sort of outcry, it quickly cleared up when people realized Cher actually did have a Native American heritage from her mother’s side. I’m such a celebrity gossip fiend and I love a good controversy or story behind a song’s meaning or release. I can’t seem find anything to confirm or deny if I made the whole thing up, but I probably could’ve looked harder. If you find anything, let me know! I do love it when y’all leave me facts or let me know you had the album too!

Whether people doubted her heritage or not, Cher has always made people talk when it comes to her costumes. The ones for this album are no different. Check out the picture and album cover! And somehow we are still shocked when musicians dress and the skin to material ratio is heavy on the skin side…

Half-Breed is the tenth studio album by American singer-actress Cher, released on October 27, 1973 by MCA. Half-Breed was the second record for MCA and also promoted on her successful The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour show. After its release, the album faced mixed reviews from critics, and the RIAA certified it Gold on March 4, 1974. The album was her second solo album to receive a certification by RIAA.

Half Breed

Cher

Side One

My Love
Two People Clinging to a Thread
Half Breed
The Greatest Song I Ever Heard
How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
Carousel Man

Side Two

David’s Song
Melody
The Long and Winding Road
The God-Forsaken Day
Chastity Sun

Fallin’ In Love – The Souther, Hillman Furay Band
Good Time Charlie’s Got the Blues – Danny O’Keefe
Baby Don’t Go – Sonny and Cher
Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town – Kenny Rogers and The First Edition
Everything That Touches You – The Association

Sonny & Cher were an American pop music duo, actors, singers and entertainers made up of husband-and-wife team Sonny and Cher Bono in the 1960s and 1970s. The couple started their career in the mid-1960s as R&B backing singers for record producer Phil Spector.

The pair first achieved fame with two hit songs in 1965, “Baby Don’t Go” and “I Got You Babe”. Signing with Atco/Atlantic Records, they released three studio albums in the late 1960s, as well as the soundtrack recording for an unsuccessful movie, Good Times. In 1972, after four years of silence, the couple returned to the studio and released two other albums under the MCA/Kapp Records label.

In the 1970s, they also positioned themselves as media personalities with two top ten TV shows in the US, The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour and The Sonny & Cher Show. The couple’s career as a duo ended in 1975 following their divorce.

Performing under her first name, Cher went on to a highly successful career as a solo singer and actress, while Sonny Bono was eventually elected to Congress as a Republican U.S. Representative from California. The two performers were inducted to the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1998, right after Sonny’s death in a skiing accident.